Optometry - Journal of the American Optometric Association
Volume 82, Issue 11 , Pages 667-680.e6, November 2011

Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of zeaxanthin and visual function in patients with atrophic age-related macular degeneration:

The Zeaxanthin and Visual Function Study (ZVF) FDA IND #78, 973

  • Stuart P. Richer, O.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Facility, North Chicago, Illinois
    • Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, Illinois
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author: Stuart P. Richer, O.D., Ph.D., Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Facility, 3001 Green Bay Road, North Chicago, IL 60064.
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  • William Stiles, M.D., J.D.

      Affiliations

    • Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Facility, North Chicago, Illinois
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  • Kelly Graham-Hoffman, PsyD

      Affiliations

    • Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Facility, North Chicago, Illinois
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  • Marc Levin, M.D., J.D.

      Affiliations

    • Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Facility, North Chicago, Illinois
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  • Dennis Ruskin, O.D.

      Affiliations

    • Private Practice, Toronto, Canada
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  • James Wrobel, DPM

      Affiliations

    • Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, Illinois
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  • Dong-Wouk Park

      Affiliations

    • Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, Chicago Medical School, North Chicago, Illinois
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  • Carla Thomas

      Affiliations

    • Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Facility, North Chicago, Illinois

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 Disclosure: The primary investigator is a consultant to Stereo Optical Company Inc. (Chicago, Illinois), manufacturer of the Functional Vision Analyzer, and to Annidis Health Systems (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada).

 Richer SP, Stiles WR, Levin MR, et al. The zeaxanthin and visual function study in atrophic age related macular degeneration (ZVF-FDA IND #78, 973) - MP and foveal shape discrimination data, Poster #510. Presented at: The Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Meeting; Ft Lauderdale, Florida; May 2, 2010.

 This material is based on original work supported by the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Facility, North Chicago, Illinois, and the Department of Veterans Affairs Research Service/CARES (Hines, Illinois). Chrysantis, Inc. (West Chicago, Illinois) is the primary ZVF granting sponsor. Kowa Optimed, Inc. (Torrance, California and Tokyo, Japan), Stereo Optical, Inc. (Chicago, Illinois), Rush Ophthalmics, Inc. (Gold Beach, Oregon), Pharmanex, Inc. (Provo, Utah), ZeaVision, Inc. (Chesterfield, Missouri), Heidelberg Instruments, Inc. (Heidelberg, Germany), and RTVue (Fremont, California) all provided instrumentation as secondary sponsors in support of both ZVF and our Ocular Nutrition Laboratory.

PII: S1529-1839(11)00448-9

doi:10.1016/j.optm.2011.08.008

Optometry - Journal of the American Optometric Association
Volume 82, Issue 11 , Pages 667-680.e6, November 2011